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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.

Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Acquire Ancient Despise Doctor Foolish Knowledge
Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Constitution Exercisepositive Fall Food Health Home Knowledge Natural Power Primary Require Various
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Brain Despondency Else From Joy Lamentation Nothing Sorrow Sport
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Alteration Change Chiefly Disease Especially Greatest Respocnible Season Violent
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Above Develop Even Function Helth Impair Protection Restore
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Diaphragm Heart However Nothing Operation Particularly Sensitive Understand
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
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Art Difficult Fallacious Feeling Judgment Life Long Occasion Short
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Disease Get Knowledge Many Requustle Spine
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
…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Acute All Deadly Difficult Disease Inexperienced Most Powerful Understood
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall

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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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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