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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Hippocrates

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Aromatic Bath Day Every Have Health Massage Scent Way
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Always Comfort Cure Often Sometimes Treat
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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All Case Condition Establish Opposite Principle Sometimes Those Treat
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
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
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Amulet Belief Incantation Mainfestation Paient Prayer Work
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
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
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
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Certain Comand Dourness Have Healthy Must Physician Ready Repulsive Sick
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
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Consider Effect First Investigate Medine Place Princess Season Welch Wishes Year
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
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

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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