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Ablata causa tollitur effectus - If the cause is taken away, its effect will disappear

Acuti morbi in quattuordecim diebus iudicantur - Acute illnesses are resolved in


fourteen days
Aegrescit medendo - The cure is worse than the disease
Bona diagnosis, bona curatio - Good diagnosis, good cure
Cessante causa, cessant effectus - Cease the cause, cease the effect
Contraria contrariis curantur - The opposite is cured with the opposite
Flos Pilaei Aegri - Flower of the Sick Pills (Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) motto,
according to St. Malachy prophecies - His family coat of arms had six medical balls
(pills) and one of them with three lilies)
Lac postum vinum venenum - Milk after the wine is poison (Medical term - Medieval
doctors recommended not to mix these two liquids)
Natura ingenium disecta cadavera pandit; plus quan vitae more taciturna docet The cadaver dissection demonstrates the wisdom of nature; more talkative than life,
teaches us the taciturn death
Natura sanat, medicus curat - The physician treats, nature cure
Non sibi sed omnibus - Not for myself, but for all
Post pisces nux sit, post carnes caseus adsit - After fish, nuts; After the of meat,
cheese (Medical advise to separate these foods)
Primum non nocere - The first thing is to do no harm (Medical term is applied when
you have to take a decision on a patient, so that the benefit is greater than the
damage it can do)
Pro re nata - For the born thing (Medical term - as needed, for an occasion that has
arisen)
Restitutio ad integrum - Return to the integral state (Medical term - denotes that
tissues are restored in full)
Sublata causa, tollitur effectus - Removing the cause, removes the effect
Ubi pus, ibi evacua - Where there is pus, it must be drained
Vade mecum - Come with me (Medical term that refers a book that describes drugs
and their benefits)
Vis medicatrix naturae (literally "the healing power of nature", and also known as
natura medica) is the Latin rendering of the Greek ("Nature is
the physician(s) of diseases"), a phrase attributed to Hippocrates. While the phrase
is not actually attested in his corpus,[1] it nevertheless sums up one of the guiding
principles of Hippocratic medicine, which is that organisms left alone can often heal
themselves (cf. the Hippocratic primum non nocere).
The term ex juvantibus (from Latin, meaning "from that which helps") refers, in
medical contexts, to the process of making an inference about disease causation
from an observed response of the disease to a treatment.

Cura te ipsum ("Take care of your own self!" or "Cure yourself") is a Latin
injunction, urging physicians to care for and heal themselves first, before dealing
with patients.
Nil per os (alternatively nihil/non/nulla per os) (npo or NPO) is a medical
instruction meaning to withhold oral food and fluids from a patient for various
reasons.
Pro re nata is a Latin phrase meaning in the circumstances or as the circumstance
arises.[1] It is commonly used in medicine to mean as needed or as the situation
arises.

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