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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

Hippocrates

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Amount Could Every Exercise Give Individual Little Much Nourishment Too
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Body Change Depend Diet Each Substance Life Mab Some These Way Whole
Life is short, the art long.
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Art Life Long Short
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Brain Despondency Else From Joy Lamentation Nothing Sorrow Sport
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
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Call Good Hamd Indeed Prayer While
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
All disease starts in the gut.
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All Disease Gut Start
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Chief Clearness Detract Language Much Nothing Unfamiliar Use Virtue Word
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
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
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
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
Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Cure One Liner Opposite
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Call Cause Cease Divine Epilepsy Men Merely Think Understand

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