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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

Hippocrates

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Account Course Even Hear Life May Men No Outside Regard See Treatment
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Audacity Betray Ignorant Indeed Knowledge Opinion Possesses Power Skill Thing Trinity Two Want
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Away Develop Use Waste
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
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
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
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Fire Heal Lance Medicine Will
All diseases begin in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Blessing Greatest Health Human
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
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
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
Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Constitution Exercisepositive Fall Food Health Home Knowledge Natural Power Primary Require Various
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
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take

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