Walking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESFat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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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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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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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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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to 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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