Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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