The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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