It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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