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.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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