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Hippocrates
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    Hippocrates had his limits.†  (source)
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    For a moment I saw the world through his eyes, his intellect, his sweeping vision that took in Hippocrates, Pavlov, Freud, and Marie Curie, the discovery of streptomycin and penicillin, Landsteiner's blood groups; a vision that recalled the septic ward where he wooed Hema, and Theater 3 where he was the reluctant surgeon; a vision that recapitulated our birth and looked to the future, looked past his life to the end of mine and beyond.†  (source)
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    Even though the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen are said to have agreed that this operation would enhance the ability to use weapons, it is doubtful whether such operations were actually performed.†  (source)
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    Thomas, have you given any thought to the Hippocrates Society?†  (source)
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    You produce on me no effect with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-a-brac.†  (source)
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    It was an ordinary doctor's waiting room like any other: back on the left, by the window, a desk with an armchair, plus an easy chair for the patient; a reference library on both sides of the door to the adjacent office; on the right at the rear, near the desk and chairs, but separated from them by a folding screen, a chaise longue set at an angle and covered in oilcloth; in the same corner, a glass cupboard filled with instruments, facing a bust of Hippocrates in the near corner; on the right wall, just above the gas fireplace, an engraving of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson; and a red carpet that covered almost the entire floor.†  (source)
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    Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer.†  (source)
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    A canary yellow paper, relieved at the top by a garland of pale flowers, was puckered everywhere over the badly stretched canvas; white calico curtains with a red border hung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candlesticks under oval shades.†  (source)
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    It was a result which paralleled the oft-quoted observation of Hippocrates concerning physical pains.†  (source)
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    Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practice.†  (source)
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    Hippocrates is a dream; Urania is a dream; Hermes, a thought.†  (source)
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    The founder of Greek medicine is said to have been Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Cos around 460 B.C. The most essential safeguards against sickness, according to the Hippocratic medical tradition, were moderation and a healthy lifestyle.†  (source)
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    And I hear the men of Hippocrates may vote to allow women to join them in a lesser capacity.†  (source)
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