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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Hippocrates

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
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Against Business Come Daily Develop From Hand Nature Out Sin Small Upon Us
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
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
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Constitution Exercisepositive Fall Food Health Home Knowledge Natural Power Primary Require Various
Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Anyone Art Maaafge Master Medicine Study Wish
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Also Art Love Man
The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Heal Nature Physics Treat
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
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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Condition Conscious Contentment Goodness Helth Perilous Recover Some Patient
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
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
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Great Opportunity Time Weather Wherein
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

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