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.
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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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. …
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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