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.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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. …
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Whoever 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.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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