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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future _ must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future _ must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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