The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESI swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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