First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATESDivine is the task to relieve pain
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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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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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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