The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future โ must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HippocratesAnd if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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