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.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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