It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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 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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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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