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.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Some 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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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