Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATESWe must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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