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.
HIPPOCRATESFrom nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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