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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hippocrates

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
Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Choose Cure Look Season
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
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Ask Council Deadly Give Like Manner Medicine One Pessary Suggest Woman
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
Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Call Cause Cease Divine Epilepsy Men Merely Think Understand
Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Blessing Greatest Health Human
Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Food Remedy Shall
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Ability According Follow Judgment Regimen System Will
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Doctor Everyone Help Her Him Just Work
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Chief Clarity Language Virtue
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Al Alone Care Complete Eat Even Excercise Keep Known Man Must Take When
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Astrology Knowledge Physician Right Without
Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Best Man Medicine Walking
Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Pain Rest Soon
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Certain Comand Dourness Have Healthy Must Physician Ready Repulsive Sick

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