The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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