Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESSilence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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