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All disease begins in the gut.

Hippocrates

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
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HIPPOCRATES

Female Fuse Male Moorish Noth ower Same Soil Thing
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATES

Cause Disease Look Spine Well
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATES

Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
Life is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATES

Art Life Long Short
Divine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATES

Divine Pain Relieve Task
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATES

Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATES

Food Medicine Our Should
The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Heal Nature Physics Treat
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
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
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
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Far Go Should Surgeon Who Wish
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
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever

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