All disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESI will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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A 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.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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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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