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.
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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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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