The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESThe dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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