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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Hippocrates

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Hippocrates
Greek Physician
Philosopher
Physician
Cos
Hippokrates
Hippokrates of Kos
Hippocrates of Cos
Physicians
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Titles
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Many
Wellness

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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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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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