Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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