We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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…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.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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