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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.

Hippocrates

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
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
The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Heal Nature Physics Treat
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Chief Clearness Detract Language Much Nothing Unfamiliar Use Virtue Word
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
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 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
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Breed Father Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Cause Chronic Cure Disease Food Just Most Powerful
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
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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Breath Down Empty Excercise Food People Want Reduce Sit Stomach
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Ambition Audience Avoid Citation Crowd Hold Laudable Least Lecture Sake Wish
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
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full

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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