Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATESThe art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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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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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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