Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The 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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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Each 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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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