Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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