Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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