…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.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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 sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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