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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

Hippocrates

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
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
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Disease Far Important Know More Person
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Always Comfort Cure Often Sometimes Treat
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Disease Get Knowledge Many Requustle Spine
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Against Business Come Daily Develop From Hand Nature Out Sin Small Upon Us
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
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
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Animal Brain Centre Double Down Like Maembrance Man Parted Thin
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Alteration Change Chiefly Disease Especially Greatest Respocnible Season Violent
Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Cure One Liner Opposite
Many admire, few know.
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Admire Few Know Man

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

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