Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Many admire, few know.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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