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.
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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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I 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 combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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