Hippocrates

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art of medicine.

Disease is not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a struggle between the morbific agent and the natural forces of the body.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

The most important thing in life is to have a good digestion.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but thence (the brain) come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.

The physician should be able to make a good guess at the future.

The physician must be a man of few words.

The physician is the natural guardian of the health of the community.

The physician should be clean in person, well-dressed, and have a good smell.

The physician should be a man of good character.

The physician should be a man of good humor.

The physician should be a man of good sense.

The physician should be a man of good education.

The physician should be a man of good reputation.

The physician should be a man of good family.

The physician should be a man of good fortune.

The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest healer of disease.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can cure the patient with food.