Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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.
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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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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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