And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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