Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESWhat 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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