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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call 'the art of medicine.'
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
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