Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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