Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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