And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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 physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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