Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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