As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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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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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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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Walking is a man's best medicine.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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