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.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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