Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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