Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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