The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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