The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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