Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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