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.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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