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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Hippocrates

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Body Disease Health Itself Learn Must Natural Observation Truth Turn
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
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
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Apply Better Case Occult Surgery Treated Treatment
Life is short, the art long.
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Art Life Long Short
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
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 art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Art Disease Factor Patient Tyree
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
Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Ailing Appropriate Article Body Both Healthy Man Mankind
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
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
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Best Man Medicine Walking
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

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