Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESLet your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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