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Hippocrates Quote: “Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.”

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101. “Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Sometimes give your services for nothing.”

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102. “Sometimes give your services for nothing.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?”

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103. “Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.”

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104. “The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “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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105. “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

Hippocrates Quote: “First of all 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...”

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106. “First of all 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...”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “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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107. “All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “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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108. “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.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.”

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109. “I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.”

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110. “And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.”

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111. “To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

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112. “All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.”

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113. “Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”

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114. “Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”

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115. “Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.”

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116. “I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.”

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117. “Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “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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118. “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.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”

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119. “What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “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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120. “I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Life is short, art is long.”

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121. “Life is short, art is long.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.”

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122. “When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.”

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123. “And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!”

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124. “But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”

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125. “Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”

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126. “In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”

— Hippocrates

Hippocrates Quote: “In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.”

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127. “In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.”

— Hippocrates

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