And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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