Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESAbout medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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