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.
HIPPOCRATESMake a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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