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.
HIPPOCRATESThose 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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