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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.

Hippocrates

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
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
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
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
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Disease Form Heal Many Them Manifold
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Disease Far Important Know More Person
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
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
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Believe Effect Ignorance Know One Science Thing Two
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Abortion Cause Give Not Pessary Woman
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
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

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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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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