Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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