Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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