Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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