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• Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease…
• Sport is a preserver of health.
• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well…
• ...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced,…
• Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but…
• The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
• Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
• Nature itself is the best physician.
• If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
• Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within…

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