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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Hippocrates

Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Drag Evil Idleness Lack Occupation Tend Toward
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Health Man Most Ought Possession Realize Valuable Wise
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Disease Form Heal Many Them Manifold
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
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
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
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
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
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
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Know Merely Really Science
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
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Animal Brain Centre Double Down Like Maembrance Man Parted Thin
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
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

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

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