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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

Hippocrates

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
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
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
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Best Man Medicine Walking
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Dangerous Difficult Elusive Experiment Judgement Life Opportunity Science Short
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
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
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
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
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Al Alone Care Complete Eat Even Excercise Keep Known Man Must Take When
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
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
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
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

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

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