Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESFrom nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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