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.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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