A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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