He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy 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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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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