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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.

Hippocrates

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Condition Important Know More Person
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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All Art Form Ignorance Inconsiderate Medicine Mobile Practice Those
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Amount Could Every Exercise Give Individual Little Much Nourishment Too
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Do Habotm Two Harm Help Least Make No Thing
Many admire, few know.
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Admire Few Know Man
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
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Best Foreseen Happen Manage Cure Mater Present State Will
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Ability According Help Injury Judgement Low never Sick Treatment Use Will Wrongdoing
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
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
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
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine

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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