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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Dangerous Difficult Elusive Experiment Judgement Life Opportunity Science Short
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Condition Conscious Contentment Goodness Helth Perilous Recover Some Patient
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
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Both Female Fuse Male Power Same Solid Soul Thing
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Disease Force Healer Natural True Within
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
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Ability According Follow Judgment Regimen System Will
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
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Away Develop Use Waste
What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Account Course Even Hear Life May Men No Outside Regard See Treatment
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Also Heal Matter Opportunity Sometimes Time
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Absent Delirious Fear Habit Inspire Make Mindedness Same Sleeplessness Thing
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach

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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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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