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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

Hippocrates

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
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Disease Form Heal Many Them Manifold
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Come Figure Hear Man Nostril Sensational Seven Sight Smell Sound Visible
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Ambition Audience Avoid Citation Crowd Hold Laudable Least Lecture Sake Wish
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
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
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
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Ask Council Deadly Give Like Manner Medicine One Pessary Suggest Woman

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