The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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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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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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