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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Hippocrates

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATES

Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATES

Al Alone Care Complete Eat Even Excercise Keep Known Man Must Take When
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATES

Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Common Crowd Dignity Ensure Healthy Look Physician Plump Require
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATES

Away Develop Use Waste
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATES

Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATES

Best Foreseen Happen Manage Cure Mater Present State Will
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATES

First Harm No Nocerum Non Primum
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Apply Better Case Occult Surgery Treated Treatment
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATES

Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATES

Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
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
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATES

Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Acute All Deadly Difficult Disease Inexperienced Most Powerful Understood
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Amde Incision Left Part Right Seize Spassm Temple
Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATES

Drag Evil Idleness Lack Occupation Tend Toward

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

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