The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, the art long.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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