The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESThe combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Each 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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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