That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATESMake a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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