War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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