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.
HIPPOCRATESMen ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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