The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESI will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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