The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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If 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.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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