There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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