Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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