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.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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.
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