…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.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Male 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.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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