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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
Hippocrates
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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
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Hippokrates of Kos
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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Life is short and the art long.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers 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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
Hippocrates
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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