Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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