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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.

Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Call Good Hamd Indeed Prayer While
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
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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According Agreeably Do Everything Indication May Medication Out Thing Turn
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
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
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Declare Diagnose Foretell Future Past Present
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Fire Heal Lance Medicine Will
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Disease Force Healer Natural True Within
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Astrology Knowledge Physician Right Without
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Abstarin Do Enter Especially Harm Help House Intension Into Sick Whatsoever Wrong
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
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
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 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
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever

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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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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