Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATESAll parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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