Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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 physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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