When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Many admire, few know.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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 life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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