What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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