What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESEach of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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