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.
HIPPOCRATESIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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