Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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