Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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