To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATESFirst 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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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