There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESWhere prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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