Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The 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.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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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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