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,
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your 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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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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