Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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