I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Life is short, the art long.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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