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.
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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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And 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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