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.
HIPPOCRATESPrimum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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