Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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 forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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