Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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