All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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…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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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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 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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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