Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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