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Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Greek physician

As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.


Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.


It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.


Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.


Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.


Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.


Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.


If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Many admire, few know.


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.


To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.



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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Nature acts without masters.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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There are only two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Disease has a plurality of forms and a plurality of cures.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession and learn how to treat his illnesses by his own judgement.
To know the cause of a disease and to understand the use of the various methods by which disease may be prevented amounts to the same thing in effect as being able to cure the malady.
What drugs will not cure, the knife will; what the knife will not cure, the cautery will; what the cautery will not cure must be considered incurable.

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