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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.

...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.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Sport is a preserver of health.

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.

The art is long, life is short

I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

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

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

Declare the past,_x000D__x000D_diagnose the present,_x000D__x000D_foretell the future.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

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

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

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

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

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.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.