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.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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…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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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