Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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