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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Hippocrates

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
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
All diseases begin in the gut.
HIPPOCRATES

All Begin Disease Gut
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATES

Disease Get Knowledge Many Requustle Spine
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATES

Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATES

Do Doctor Good Harm Kep Must Whenever
I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Art Equal Gold Livelihood Parent Partner Swear Teacher
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Acquire Ancient Despise Doctor Foolish Knowledge
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Condition Important Know More Person
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
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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All Breath Common Flow No Sympathy Thing
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
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
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Better Drink Food Full
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season

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