I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HIPPOCRATESAnd if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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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.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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