Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATESIt 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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