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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

Hippocrates

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
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
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
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Art Disease Factor Patient Tyree
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Craft Learn Life Long Short So
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Access Everything Nature Oppose
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Food Life Medicine Thy
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Absent Delirious Fear Habit Inspire Make Mindedness Same Sleeplessness Thing
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
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
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Art Equal Gold Livelihood Parent Partner Swear Teacher

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