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Advice
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease
-Hippocrates
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Decisions
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To do nothing is also a good remedy.
-Hippocrates
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Doctors
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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
-Hippocrates
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
-Hippocrates
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Exercise
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
-Hippocrates
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Healing
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It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.
-Hippocrates
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Health
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Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano
a healthy mind in a healthy body
-Hippocrates
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Help
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As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
-Hippocrates, Epidemics
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Medicine
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
-Hippocrates
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Walking is a man's best medicine.
-Hippocrates
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Opinion
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
-Hippocrates
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Teaching
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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.
-Hippocrates
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Books by and about Hippocrates