Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The 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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Into 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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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