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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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