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.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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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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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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If 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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