Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Illnesses 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.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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