Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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