Walking is man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESAll diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Illnesses 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 prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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