What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All disease starts in the gut.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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If 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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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 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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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