If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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