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.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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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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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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