The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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