The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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