And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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 physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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 patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Those 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.
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