Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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