Hippocrates
Father of medicine
Sayings by Hippocrates
The powers of the elements are shown in the seasons.
The physician should be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must explain the things experienced and things not experienced, and must communicate to the sick the things that are necessary.
The belly is the beginning of all evil.
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can cure the patient with food.
If a man has a pain in his knee, and it is on the outer side, it is a sign that he will have a fever.
The natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
The love of wisdom is the mother of all good things.
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
It is a disgrace to a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future.
If you cut open a man and find his liver black as pitch, he will die within seven days.
The physician must be experienced in many things, but assuredly in rubbing.
The flesh of the hedgehog, when eaten, cures incontinence of urine.
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, 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.
If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Those by nature overweight, die earlier than the slim.