The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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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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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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