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.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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