Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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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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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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