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For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.

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Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine."

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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

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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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