The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESRest as soon as there is pain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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 better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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