Hippocrates - Diseases Quotes

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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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In autumn, diseases are most acute, and most mortal, on the whole. The spring is most healthy, and least mortal.

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The disease called Sacred appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has the natural cause from which it originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other disease.

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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

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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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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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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.

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For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.

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Extreme remedies are most appropriate for extreme diseases.

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All the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred' It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

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