Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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