All 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.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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