Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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HippocratesHippocrates And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
HippocratesHippocrates Walking is a man’s best medicine.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HippocratesHippocrates The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HippocratesHippocrates Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
HippocratesHippocrates The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
HippocratesHippocrates Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
HippocratesHippocrates War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HippocratesHippocrates Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HippocratesHippocrates …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.
HippocratesHippocrates Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HippocratesHippocrates Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HippocratesHippocrates Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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