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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.

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

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Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles. In city practice experience of these is but little, for very rarely even in a whole lifetime are there civil or military combats. In fact such things occur most frequently and continuously in armies abroad. Thus, the person intending to practice this kind of surgery must serve in the army, and accompany it on expeditions abroad; for in this way he would become experienced in this practice.

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Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

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Hippocrates

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Born: 460 BC

Died: 370 BC (aged 90)

Bio: Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

Known for:

Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocratic writings
On Ancient Medicine
On Airs, Waters And Places
On the Sacred Disease

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practice, diseases, man, health, body, art, extreme, brain, medicine, cure, life, time, opportunity, judgment, abroad

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