The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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