The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESA wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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