It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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