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IV.
Hence, the patient should not become arrogant because he either conserved his health or restored it when lost without the work of a physician; he did not, however, achieve this without medicine natural recovery processes.

V.
Nor should the physician arrogantly and haughtily claim for himself those things that he was not going to do, and did not even have in his mind, if they happen to occur.