Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Many admire, few know.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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