Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESIt 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’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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