There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESWe must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Life is short, the art long.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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