Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATESThe art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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