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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Hippocrates

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
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Cure Disease Fire Iron Medicine Those
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Believe Effect Ignorance Know One Science Thing Two
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
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
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Food Life Medicine Thy
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Al Alone Care Complete Eat Even Excercise Keep Known Man Must Take When
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Condition Important Know More Person
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Else Everything First Lead Most Natural Oppose Require Talent Vain Way
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Great Opportunity Time Weather Wherein
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Best Foreseen Happen Manage Cure Mater Present State Will
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Blessing Greatest Health Human

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