Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATESIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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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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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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