He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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