Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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 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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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