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. …
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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