The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever 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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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