And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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