The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
HIPPOCRATESThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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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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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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