Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
HIPPOCRATESAll 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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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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