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.
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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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I 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.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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