I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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