“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

Rest as soon as there is pain.

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.

Nature itself is the best physician.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

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.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife’s instrument, then by forcing Rife into court….

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.

[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

Grief is itself a medicine.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.