Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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