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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

Hippocrates

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Aromatic Bath Day Every Have Health Massage Scent Way
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Bad Insolent Person Polite Reply Sign
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
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
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
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Believe Effect Ignorance Know One Science Thing Two
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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For Give Nothing Service Sometimes
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Food Let Medicine
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
Many admire, few know.
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Admire Few Know Man
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Appropriate Disease Extreme Remedy
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
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
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
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

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