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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Hippocrates

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Ambition Audience Avoid Citation Crowd Hold Laudable Least Lecture Sake Wish
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Amulet Belief Incantation Mainfestation Paient Prayer Work
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Above Develop Even Function Helth Impair Protection Restore
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
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
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
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
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Blessing Consider Food Greatest Health Human Let Man Medicine Wise
The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All Each Force Greatest Healer Natural Withing
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Bring never Only Pain Silence Sorrow Thirsty
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
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Disease Form Heal Many Them Manifold
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Been Clear Clearly Get Good Learn Lesson One Record Succeed Try
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Believe Effect Ignorance Know One Science Thing Two

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