Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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