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.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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 physician treats, but nature heals.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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