It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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