The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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…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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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