All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, the art long.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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