Rest as soon as there is pain.
HIPPOCRATESMen think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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 function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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.
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Many admire, few know.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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