Walking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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