Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESInto whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Many admire, few know.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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