If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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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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.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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