Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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