The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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