Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATESA sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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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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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