The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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Life is short, the art long.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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