"Rest as soon as there is pain."
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
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"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
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"Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate."
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"All disease begins in the gut."
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"And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose."
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"All diseases begin in the gut."
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"Nature itself is the best physician."
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"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
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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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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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"A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession."
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"Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health."
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"To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance."
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"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe."
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"Look well to the spine for the cause of disease."
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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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"Opposites are cures for opposites."
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"Physicians are many in title but very few in reality."
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"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician."
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