What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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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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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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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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