Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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