Sport is a preserver of health.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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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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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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