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

Hippocrates

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
All disease begins in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATES

Call Good Hamd Indeed Prayer While
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
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
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
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
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
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Condition Important Know More Person
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
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Great Opportunity Time Weather Wherein
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
Nature itself is the best physician.
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Best Itself Nature Physician
The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Animal Brain Centre Double Down Like Maembrance Man Parted Thin

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