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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Hippocrates

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
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
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
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
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
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Good Nothing Remedy Something
All diseases begin in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
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
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
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Acquire Advantage Content Follow Knowledge Medicine Ought Possess Whoever
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Art Difficult Fallacious Feeling Judgment Life Long Occasion Short
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Condition Conscious Contentment Goodness Helth Perilous Recover Some Patient
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Attention Change Combination Given Individual Season Thing Win
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
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
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
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
The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All Each Force Greatest Healer Natural Withing
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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Able Antecedent Foretell Future Meditate Must Physician Present Thing
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Food Life Medicine Thy

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