Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESLook well to the spine for the cause of disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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 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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