The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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