There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESMake 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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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