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.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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