Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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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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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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