It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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