Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESFirst of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Life is short, the art long.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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