Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESA wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Whoever 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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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