It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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