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.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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