It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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