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.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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