Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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