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.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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,
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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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