Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATESEach 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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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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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Many admire, few know.
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