Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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