All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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It 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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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