Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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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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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.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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