Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESLife 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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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