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.
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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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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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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. …
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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