Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The 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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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.
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