And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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