All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESAnd 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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Many admire, few know.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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