The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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