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.
HIPPOCRATESThings that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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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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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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