The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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