Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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 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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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