The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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