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Greek Physician Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
Hippocrates
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
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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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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help himself in diseases, and be able to understand and to judge what physicians say and what they administer to his body, being versed in each of these matters to a degree reasonable for a layman.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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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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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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