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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

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
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Divine Pain Relieve Task
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Abstarin Do Enter Especially Harm Help House Intension Into Sick Whatsoever Wrong
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Doctor Everyone Help Her Him Just Work
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Access Everything Nature Oppose
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Abortion Cause Give Not Pessary Woman
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Breath Down Empty Excercise Food People Want Reduce Sit Stomach
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Chief Clearness Detract Language Much Nothing Unfamiliar Use Virtue Word
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Beget Fact Former Ignorance Knowledge Latter Opinion Science Thing Two
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
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
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

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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