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 946. Even as Health seeketh the man who eateth only when his stomach is empty, even so doth Disease seek the man who eateth to excess.

947. Behold the man who glutteth himself foolishly beyond the measure of his internal heat : his diseases will exceed all measure.

948. Consider the disease and its origin and the means of curing it: and then set about the cure with every precaution.

949. Let the physician take the measure of the patient and the disease and the season that is: and then let him undertake the cure.

950. The patient, the physician, the medicine, and the apothecary, on these four doth all cure depend : and four again are the attributes of each of them.$8$

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