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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.
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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. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. 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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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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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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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