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.
HIPPOCRATESMen 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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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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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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