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

Hippocrates

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Amount Could Every Exercise Give Individual Little Much Nourishment Too
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Know Most Nature Necessary Spine
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
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
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Brain Despondency Else From Joy Lamentation Nothing Sorrow Sport
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Choose Least Physician Remedy Sensational Several
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Another Change Especially Excess Immical Little Nature One Process Safer Time
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Begin Ignorance Knowledge Opinion Science
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Best Foreseen Happen Manage Cure Mater Present State Will
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
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
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
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

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