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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

Hippocrates

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
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
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
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Call Cause Cease Divine Epilepsy Men Merely Think Understand
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
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
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
All diseases begin in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Brain Jest Joy Know Laughter Men Only Ought Pain Pleasure Sorrow
In all abundance there is lack.
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All Abundance Lack
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
All disease starts in the gut.
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All Disease Gut Start
I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Art Equal Gold Livelihood Parent Partner Swear Teacher
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should

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