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.
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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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