And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
HIPPOCRATESEveryone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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 begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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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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