I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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