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.
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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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