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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Hippocrates

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
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
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
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Condition Conscious Contentment Goodness Helth Perilous Recover Some Patient
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Both Female Fuse Male Power Same Solid Soul Thing
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Acquire Ancient Despise Doctor Foolish Knowledge
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Amde Incision Left Part Right Seize Spassm Temple
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Always Comfort Cure Often Sometimes Treat
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Cure Disease Fire Iron Medicine Those
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Another Change Especially Excess Immical Little Nature One Process Safer Time
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Disease Force Healer Natural True Within
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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All Art Form Ignorance Inconsiderate Medicine Mobile Practice Those

…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

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