Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESMen think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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