Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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