Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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