Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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 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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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