The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Many admire, few know.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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