Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESSometimes give your services for nothing.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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