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evidently taken from the author's other works, especially 

 those " On Air," etc., " On Prognostics," and " On the 

 Articulations." They embody the result of a vast 

 amount of observation and reflection, and the majority 

 of them have been confirmed by the experience of two 

 thousand years. A proof of the high esteem in which 

 they have always been held is furnished by the fact 

 that they have been translated into all the languages 

 of the civilized world ; among others, into Hebrew, 

 Arabic, Latin, English, Dutch, Italian, German, and 

 French. The following are a few examples of these 

 aphorisms : 



" Spontaneous lassitude indicates disease." 



" Old people on the whole have fewer complaints than 

 the young; but those chronic diseases which do befall 

 them generally never leave them." 



" Persons who have sudden and violent attacks of 

 fainting without any obvious cause die suddenly." 



" Of the constitutions of the year, the dry upon the 

 whole are more healthy than the rainy, and attended 

 with less mortality." 



" Phthisis most commonly occurs between the ages of 

 eighteen and thirty-five years." 



" If one give to a person in fever the same food which 

 is given to a person in good health, what is strength to 

 the one is disease to the other." 



" Such food as is most grateful, though not so whole- 



