Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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