Rest as soon as there is pain.
HIPPOCRATESI swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Many admire, few know.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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