Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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