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.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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