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.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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