The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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