Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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