Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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