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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.

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

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

In all abundance there is lack.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

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.