Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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