Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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