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• For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

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  Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Disease, Restriction

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.699

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• Life is short, the art long.

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  Life, Art, Long

  Aphorisms sec. 1, para. 1.

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• Life is short and the art long.

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  Art, Life Is Short, Long

  Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1910). “Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”

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• The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.

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  Pain, Health, Science

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.) (1931). “Hippocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

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  Ambition, Wish, Sake

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter (1923). “Hippocrates”

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• For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

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  Illness, Fitting, Treatment

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• I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

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  Character, Men, Inexperience

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• The art is long, life is short

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  Art, Short Life, Life Is Short

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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