Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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 the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.