About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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