Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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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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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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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