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• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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  Excess, Consumerism, Overconsumption

  "Catholic Morality: Selected Sayings and Some Account of Various Religions". Book by E. Comyns Durnford, p. 90, 1915.

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• Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

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  Firsts, Harm

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• Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

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  Men, Substance, Body

  Hippocrates (1950). “The Medical works of Hippocrates: a new translation from the original Greek made especially for English readers”

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• It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

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  Serious, May, Disease

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• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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  Funny Inspirational, Healing, Health

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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  Wise, Food, Health

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• All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

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  Healthy, Growth, Age

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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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  Function, Restoring, Developing

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• We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

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  Body, Disease, Wellness

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• Sport is a preserver of health.

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  Sports, Motivational Sports

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• Rest as soon as there is pain.

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  Hurt, Pain, Healing

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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  Important, Persons, Knows

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• A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

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  Astrology, Physicians

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• Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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  Sleep, Disease, Watchfulness

  Aphorisms II

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• Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

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  Art, Medicine, Wish

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• Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

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  Medicine, Humankind

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• All diseases begin in the gut.

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  Health, Disease, Guts

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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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  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

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  Physicians, Disease, Patient

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.360

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• To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Knows

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• The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

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  Health, Medicine, Natural

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• Walking is man's best medicine.

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  Inspirational, Life, Health

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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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  Life, Art, Science

  Moses Maimonides, Hippocrates (1987). “Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates”

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• Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

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  Disease, Spine, Chiropractic

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• Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

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  Reality, Physicians, Titles

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.784

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