Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HIPPOCRATESIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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