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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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