Hippocrates Quotes
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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Life is short and the art long.
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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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Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
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While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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 divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.