The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESEveryone 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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