He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Many admire, few know.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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