The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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