Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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