Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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