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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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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help or at least to do no harm.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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