Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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 physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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