Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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