Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESThrough 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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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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