We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Many admire, few know.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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