The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Life is short, the art long.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The 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.
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