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.
HIPPOCRATESScience begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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.
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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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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 patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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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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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.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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