Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATESLook well to the spine for the cause of disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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