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.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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.
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