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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

Hippocrates

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Accustomed All Body Each Excercise Function Labor Moderation Part Therapy Use
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATES

Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Aromatic Bath Day Every Have Health Massage Scent Way
I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Art Equal Gold Livelihood Parent Partner Swear Teacher
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Along Combal Disease Must Patient Physician
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATES

Doctor Fool Good Not Own
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES

Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATES

Food Let Medicine
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Blessing Consider Food Greatest Health Human Let Man Medicine Wise
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Art Disease Factor Patient Tyree
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
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

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