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.
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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