All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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