It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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