Nature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESAll parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
HIPPOCRATESA sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
HIPPOCRATESMale and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESThe brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is man’s best medicine.
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