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.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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 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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