Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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.
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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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