Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESSome 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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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