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.
HIPPOCRATESEach of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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