Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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