Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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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