All disease starts in the gut.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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 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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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It 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.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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