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.
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.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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