The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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