When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATESIt is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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