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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Hippocrates

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES

Believe Ignorance Know Merely Really Science
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATES

First Look Sickness Spine When
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
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATES

Far Go Should Surgeon Who Wish
The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATES

Disease Form Heal Many Them Manifold
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Come Figure Hear Man Nostril Sensational Seven Sight Smell Sound Visible
The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATES

Heal Nature Physics Treat
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATES

Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATES

Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATES

Amulet Belief Incantation Mainfestation Paient Prayer Work
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATES

Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Health Man Most Ought Possession Realize Valuable Wise
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Breath Down Empty Excercise Food People Want Reduce Sit Stomach
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
HIPPOCRATES

Ability According Follow Judgment Regimen System Will
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full
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

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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