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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.

Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Acquire Ancient Despise Doctor Foolish Knowledge
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Breath Down Empty Excercise Food People Want Reduce Sit Stomach
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Also Art Love Man
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Acquire Alone Clear First Instance Knowledge Maintain Medicine Natural Science
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Dangerous Difficult Elusive Experiment Judgement Life Opportunity Science Short
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
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
Sport is a preserver of health.
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Health Preserver Sport
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
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
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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All Greatest Medicine Need People Teach
I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Been Clear Clearly Get Good Learn Lesson One Record Succeed Try

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