All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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