It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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A 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.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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