Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESI 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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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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