Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESSilence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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