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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.

Hippocrates

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATES

Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Ability According Help Injury Judgement Low never Sick Treatment Use Will Wrongdoing
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Al Alone Care Complete Eat Even Excercise Keep Known Man Must Take When
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATES

Always Comfort Cure Often Sometimes Treat
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATES

Chief Clarity Language Virtue
Walking is man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATES

Best Man Medicine Walk
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
HIPPOCRATES

Apply Better Case Occult Surgery Treated Treatment
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
HIPPOCRATES

Against Business Come Daily Develop From Hand Nature Out Sin Small Upon Us
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
HIPPOCRATES

Choose Cure Look Season
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
HIPPOCRATES

Body Change Depend Diet Each Substance Life Mab Some These Way Whole
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
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES

Believe Ignorance Know Merely Really Science
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
HIPPOCRATES

Absent Delirious Fear Habit Inspire Make Mindedness Same Sleeplessness Thing
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
HIPPOCRATES

Consider Effect First Investigate Medine Place Princess Season Welch Wishes Year
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
The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Attention Change Combination Given Individual Season Thing Win

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