Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
HIPPOCRATESIt 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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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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