Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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I 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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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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 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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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