Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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