Nature itself is the best physician.
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Timidity 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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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