It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
HIPPOCRATESEven 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.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Many admire, few know.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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