Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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 function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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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…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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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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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