If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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