For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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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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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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