The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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