Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATESThe dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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All 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.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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