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.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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