Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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Life is short, the art long.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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