Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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