Life is short, the art long.
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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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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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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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