Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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About 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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 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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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