What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Many admire, few know.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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.
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