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.
HIPPOCRATESI will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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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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…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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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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