Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Life is short, the art long.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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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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