The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician treats, but nature heals.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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