I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HIPPOCRATESWhen doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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 natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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