Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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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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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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