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.
HIPPOCRATESThe human soul develops up to the time of death.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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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 will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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