Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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