The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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