Fat 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.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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