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.
HIPPOCRATESOf several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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 better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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