The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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