Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Many admire, few know.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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