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.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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