Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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