Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESA wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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