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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Call Cause Cease Divine Epilepsy Men Merely Think Understand
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Come Figure Hear Man Nostril Sensational Seven Sight Smell Sound Visible
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
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
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
All diseases begin in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
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
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
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Ask Council Deadly Give Like Manner Medicine One Pessary Suggest Woman
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
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

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