If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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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 swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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And 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.
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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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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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