There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThose diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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