Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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