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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More Hippocrates Quotes
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Many admire, few know.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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