A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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