If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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