What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESThe human soul develops up to the time of death.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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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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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Whoever 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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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