Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Many admire, few know.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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