The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity 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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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