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.
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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