Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESRest as soon as there is pain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Many admire, few know.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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