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.
HIPPOCRATESLet your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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