I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, the art long.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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