The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Men 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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