Illnesses 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.
HIPPOCRATESLook well to the spine for the cause of disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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