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.
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 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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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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