The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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 disease starts in the gut.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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