If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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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.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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