The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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