Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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