Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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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 function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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