The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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.
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…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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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