He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATESI 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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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