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Hippocrates

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
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Above Develop Even Function Helth Impair Protection Restore
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Know Most Nature Necessary Spine
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Bring never Only Pain Silence Sorrow Thirsty
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Disease Force Healer Natural True Within
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
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
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Amulet Belief Incantation Mainfestation Paient Prayer Work
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
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Able Antecedent Foretell Future Meditate Must Physician Present Thing
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Disease Fewer Leave Old People Them Young
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
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.
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Applied Discover Drunk Everyone Learn Medication People Reason Worth Would
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Abortion Cause Give Not Pessary Woman

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