Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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When 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.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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