First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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