Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
HIPPOCRATESThe way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Life is short, the art long.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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