All diseases begin in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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First 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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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