…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.
HIPPOCRATESThe brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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