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.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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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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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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