I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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