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.
HIPPOCRATESPositive 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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