I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
HIPPOCRATESThe way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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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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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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