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.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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