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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Hippocrates

The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Animal Brain Centre Double Down Like Maembrance Man Parted Thin
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Beget Fact Former Ignorance Knowledge Latter Opinion Science Thing Two
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Ask Away First Good Health Illness Must One Oneself Ready Reason Someone Wish
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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Body Change Depend Diet Each Substance Life Mab Some These Way Whole
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Access Everything Nature Oppose
…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Acute All Deadly Difficult Disease Inexperienced Most Powerful Understood
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
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
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Absent Delirious Fear Habit Inspire Make Mindedness Same Sleeplessness Thing
The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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All Each Force Greatest Healer Natural Withing
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Ask Council Deadly Give Like Manner Medicine One Pessary Suggest Woman
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

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