Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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