"Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man."
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"The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves."
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"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
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"The patient must combat the disease along with the physician."
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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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"He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war."
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"Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy."
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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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"I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion."
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"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
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"That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away."
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"Divine is the task to relieve pain"
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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
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"The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all."
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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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"From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations"
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"In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black."
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"Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease."
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"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."
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"Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach."
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