Hippocrates Quotes
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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…
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the…
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these…
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of…
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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…
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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…
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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