Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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