He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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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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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.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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