Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever 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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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