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APHORISM
See also:APHRAATES 16 of them who are very lively." " Those who are very See also:fat by natureare more exposed to See also:die suddenly than those who are thin." " Those who eject foaming See also:blood, eject it from the See also:lung." " When two illnesses arrive at the same See also:time, the stronger silences the weaker." The first aphorism, perhaps the best known of all, which serves as a See also:kind of introduction to the See also:book, runs as follows: " See also:Life is See also:short, See also:art is See also:long, opportunity fugitive, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult: it is necessary not only to do oneself what is right, but also to be seconded by the patient, by those who attend him, by See also:external circumstances." Another famous collection of aphorisms is that of the school of See also:Salerno in Latin See also:verse, in which Joannes de Meditano, one of the most celebrated doctors of the school of See also:medicine of Salerno, has summed up the precepts of this school
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