It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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