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.
HIPPOCRATESWherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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