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.
HIPPOCRATESThe dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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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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