Hippocrates Quotes
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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 brain.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
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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.