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.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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