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,
HIPPOCRATESScience begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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