Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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