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.
HIPPOCRATESIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Many admire, few know.
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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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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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