In all abundance there is lack.
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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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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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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