Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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