Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESI have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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