The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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