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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.


Hippocrates

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HIPPOCRATES Life is short, the art long.
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HIPPOCRATES What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATES Walking is a man's best medicine.
HIPPOCRATES Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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HIPPOCRATES Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
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HIPPOCRATES Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano
a healthy mind in a healthy body
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HIPPOCRATES Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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HIPPOCRATES Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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HIPPOCRATES Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATES Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
HIPPOCRATES To do nothing is also a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATES Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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HIPPOCRATES Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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HIPPOCRATES A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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HIPPOCRATES Many admire, few know.
HIPPOCRATES Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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HIPPOCRATES Walking is man's best medicine.
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HIPPOCRATES Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis
HIPPOCRATES By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured.
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HIPPOCRATES Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATES If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.
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HIPPOCRATES When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
HIPPOCRATES Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES