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.
HIPPOCRATESIt is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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