It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESInto whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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