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Life is short and the art long.
Hippocrates
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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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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.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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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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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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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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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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