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PART 3

III. Early determination of the patient's treatment--since only what has actually been administered will benefit ; emphatic assertion is of no use--is beneficial but complicated. For it is through many turns and changes that all diseases settle into some sort of permanence.1

1 Because changes and turns are common in the early stages, to fix the proper treatment early is a complicated matter.

Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.

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