The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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