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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Hippocrates

Nature itself is the best physician.
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Best Itself Nature Physician
Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Humankind Love Medicine Where
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Brain Drang Foretold Function Structure Wine
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Holy Man Only Reveal Thing
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Accustomed All Body Each Excercise Function Labor Moderation Part Therapy Use
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Ability According Follow Judgment Regimen System Will
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Cure Disease Fire Iron Medicine Those
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Amde Incision Left Part Right Seize Spassm Temple
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Along Combal Disease Must Patient Physician
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Art Humanity Love Medicine Whatever
All disease begins in the gut.
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All Begin Disease Gut
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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All Case Condition Establish Opposite Principle Sometimes Those Treat
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Good Nothing Remedy Something
Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Cure One Liner Opposite
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
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
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Both Constitute Disease Immoderate Sleep Watchfulness
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Act Declare Diagnose Disease Foretell Habit Help Make Past Practice Present Thing Two
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
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
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
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
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
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach

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