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When in sickness, look to the spine first.

Hippocrates

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Able Antecedent Foretell Future Meditate Must Physician Present Thing
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Both Female Fuse Male Power Same Solid Soul Thing
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
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
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
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Breed Father Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Ask Away First Good Health Illness Must One Oneself Ready Reason Someone Wish
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
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Audacity Betray Ignorant Indeed Knowledge Opinion Possesses Power Skill Thing Trinity Two Want
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Declare Diagnose Foretell Future Past Present
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
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Fire Heal Lance Medicine Will
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

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