The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESWherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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