Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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