Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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