Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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