Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESI will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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