All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and 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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Many admire, few know.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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