From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESWalking is man’s best medicine.
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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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