Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESRest as soon as there is pain.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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