We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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, the art long.
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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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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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