Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Many admire, few know.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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