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.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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