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.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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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 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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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