Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESThose 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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