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.
HIPPOCRATESI 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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