The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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 art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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