Hippocrates
Quotes by Hippocrates
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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
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In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
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People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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