Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Each 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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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