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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Know Most Nature Necessary Spine
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Ambition Audience Avoid Citation Crowd Hold Laudable Least Lecture Sake Wish
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Another Change Especially Excess Immical Little Nature One Process Safer Time
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Diaphragm Heart However Nothing Operation Particularly Sensitive Understand
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Acquire Alone Clear First Instance Knowledge Maintain Medicine Natural Science
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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According Agreeably Do Everything Indication May Medication Out Thing Turn
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
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Access Everything Nature Oppose
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Act Declare Diagnose Disease Foretell Habit Help Make Past Practice Present Thing Two
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Audacity Betray Ignorant Indeed Knowledge Opinion Possesses Power Skill Thing Trinity Two Want
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
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
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
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Accustomed All Body Each Excercise Function Labor Moderation Part Therapy Use
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

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