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All disease begins in the gut.
HippocratesHippocrates Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HippocratesHippocrates Many admire, few know.
HippocratesHippocrates Rest as soon as there is pain.
HippocratesHippocrates Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HippocratesHippocrates Nature itself is the best physician.
HippocratesHippocrates Health is the greatest of human blessings.
HippocratesHippocrates A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HippocratesHippocrates It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
HippocratesHippocrates There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HippocratesHippocrates Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HippocratesHippocrates If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
HippocratesHippocrates The physician treats, but nature heals.
HippocratesHippocrates Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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