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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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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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I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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