Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESSilence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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