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.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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