Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Many admire, few know.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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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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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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