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.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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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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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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