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.
HIPPOCRATESMedicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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…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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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