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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

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Brain Drang Foretold Function Structure Wine
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Also Art Love Man
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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Apply Better Case Occult Surgery Treated Treatment
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Fire Heal Lance Medicine Will
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Brain Jest Joy Know Laughter Men Only Ought Pain Pleasure Sorrow
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Call Good Hamd Indeed Prayer While
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Above Develop Even Function Helth Impair Protection Restore
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
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Believe Effect Ignorance Know One Science Thing Two
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Know Most Nature Necessary Spine
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Away Develop Use Waste

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