We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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