From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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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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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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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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