The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESEveryone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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