Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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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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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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