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.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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