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.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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