What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATESMedicine 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.
HIPPOCRATESHealth is the greatest of human blessings.
HIPPOCRATESIf someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESAll 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.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESWhen 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.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATES