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.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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It 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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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