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.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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