What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Declare 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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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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