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Related to this is the surgery of wounds arising in military service, which concerns the extraction of missiles.

— Hippocrates

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As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)

Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting.

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