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.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
More Hippocrates Quotes
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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