The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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