Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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