All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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