Walking is man’s best medicine.
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 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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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