What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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