Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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