There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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