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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

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
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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All Case Condition Establish Opposite Principle Sometimes Those Treat
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Do Habotm Two Harm Help Least Make No Thing
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Declare Diagnose Foretell Future Past Present
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Blessing Greatest Health Human
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Also Art Love Man
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.
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Apply Better Case Occult Surgery Treated Treatment
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
I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Been Clear Clearly Get Good Learn Lesson One Record Succeed Try
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Divine Pain Relieve Task
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Act Declare Diagnose Disease Foretell Habit Help Make Past Practice Present Thing Two
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Cause Disease Look Spine Well

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

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