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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

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
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
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
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Body Disease Health Itself Learn Must Natural Observation Truth Turn
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Believe Ignorance Know Merely Really Science
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Bald Become Eunuch Gout Take
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Good Nothing Remedy Something
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Beget Fact Former Ignorance Knowledge Latter Opinion Science Thing Two
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
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Another Change Especially Excess Immical Little Nature One Process Safer Time
It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Absent Delirious Fear Habit Inspire Make Mindedness Same Sleeplessness Thing
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Food Medicine Our Should
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
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom

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