It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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