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.
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Through 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.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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