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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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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.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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