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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

Hippocrates

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
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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First Look Sickness Spine When
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Doctor Fool Good Not Own
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Each Foirec Force Get Greatest Hea Nature One
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Do Habotm Two Harm Help Least Make No Thing
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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All Art Form Ignorance Inconsiderate Medicine Mobile Practice Those
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Come Figure Hear Man Nostril Sensational Seven Sight Smell Sound Visible
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Brain Jest Joy Know Laughter Men Only Ought Pain Pleasure Sorrow
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Alteration Change Chiefly Disease Especially Greatest Respocnible Season Violent
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
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
Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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But Few Many Physician Reality Title Very
War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Proper School Surgeon War
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
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
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Consider Effect First Investigate Medine Place Princess Season Welch Wishes Year

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

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