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“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And…

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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what…

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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone…

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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd…

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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain…

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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one…

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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

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All diseases begin in the gut.

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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole…

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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine…

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