Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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