Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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