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.
HIPPOCRATES…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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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…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.
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