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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
Hippocrates
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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
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Hippokrates of Kos
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Make a habit of two things: to help or at least to do no harm.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures those which iron cannot cure, fire cures and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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