The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The 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.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least 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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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