Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever 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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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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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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