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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Hippocrates

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
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
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
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Do Habotm Two Harm Help Least Make No Thing
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
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Anyone Art Maaafge Master Medicine Study Wish
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
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Certain Comand Dourness Have Healthy Must Physician Ready Repulsive Sick
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Abortion Cause Give Not Pessary Woman
All disease begins in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Ability According Help Injury Judgement Low never Sick Treatment Use Will Wrongdoing
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
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
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
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Art Difficult Fallacious Feeling Judgment Life Long Occasion Short
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Best Man Medicine Walking
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Doctor Everyone Help Her Him Just Work
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Against Business Come Daily Develop From Hand Nature Out Sin Small Upon Us
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Chief Clearness Detract Language Much Nothing Unfamiliar Use Virtue Word

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