Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESThrough seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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