If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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