A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HIPPOCRATESHe who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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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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