Rest as soon as there is pain.
HIPPOCRATES
HIPPOCRATES
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HippocratesHippocrates It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HippocratesHippocrates A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
HippocratesHippocrates Divine is the task to relieve pain
HippocratesHippocrates Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HippocratesHippocrates Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HippocratesHippocrates Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HippocratesHippocrates Walking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesHippocrates Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HippocratesHippocrates And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
HippocratesHippocrates Walking is a man’s best medicine.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HippocratesHippocrates 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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