Nature itself is the best physician.
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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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