Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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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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