It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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