The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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