Hippocrates

Hippocrates

"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."
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"The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm."
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"Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad."
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"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
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"As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm."
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"Life is short, the art long."
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"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
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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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"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
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"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
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"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
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"Walking is man's best medicine."
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."
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"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
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"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
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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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"Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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