From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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