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.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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