Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
HIPPOCRATESAnd if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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