The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESMedicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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