He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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