The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESAnd if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Many admire, few know.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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