Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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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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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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