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 object...
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
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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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Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe tha...
