If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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