There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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