Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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