The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESWalking is man’s best medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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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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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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