The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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