Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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