The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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.
HippocratesHippocrates Nature itself is the best physician.
HippocratesHippocrates Health is the greatest of human blessings.
HippocratesHippocrates A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HippocratesHippocrates It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
HippocratesHippocrates There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HippocratesHippocrates It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
HippocratesHippocrates Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HippocratesHippocrates Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HippocratesHippocrates If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
HippocratesHippocrates The physician treats, but nature heals.
HippocratesHippocrates Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HippocratesHippocrates Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
HippocratesHippocrates 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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