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.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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Fat 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.
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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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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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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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