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“הטבע מרפא את החולה.”
“יהא מזונך תרופתך היחידה.”
“Many admire, few know.”
“The art is long, life is short.”
“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”
“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”
“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.”
“Walking is man's best medicine.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.”
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.”
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.”
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
“Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.”
“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”
“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.”
“Life is short, the art long.”