What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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