All diseases begin in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESOf several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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