Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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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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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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