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.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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