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

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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Know Merely Really Science
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Chief Clearness Detract Language Much Nothing Unfamiliar Use Virtue Word
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Being Best Blessing Derive Find Human Man Ought Persona Sensible Thought Well
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Doctor Everyone Help Her Him Just Work
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.
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According Agreeably Do Everything Indication May Medication Out Thing Turn
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 Health Itself Learn Must Natural Observation Truth Turn
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Account Course Even Hear Life May Men No Outside Regard See Treatment
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Abstarin Do Enter Especially Harm Help House Intension Into Sick Whatsoever Wrong
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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All Case Condition Establish Opposite Principle Sometimes Those Treat
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness

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