The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESA 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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In all abundance there is lack.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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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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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Many admire, few know.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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