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.
HIPPOCRATESFat 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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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First 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.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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