Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESLook well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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