The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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