First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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