The Wisdom of Hippocrates

• The art of medicine consists in three things: The disease, the patient and the physician.

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

• Fat men are more likely to die suddenly than the slender.

• Healing is a matter of time , but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

• Let exercise come before meals, not after.

• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

• Nautural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

• Never work when hungry.

• Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

• The human soul develops up to death.

• What drugs cannot heal, the knife can heal; what the knife cannot heal the cautery can heal; what the cautery cannot heal is incurable.

• Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting , experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

• Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love of humanity.

• Follow that system of regimen which, according to your ability and judgment, you consider f or the benefit of your patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

• With purity and with holiness pass your life nd practice your art.

• Into whatever houses you enter, go into them for the benefit of the sick , and abstain from every voluntary act of mischief adn corruption.

• Give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner, don't give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

• Whatever, in connection with your professional practice, or not in connection with it, you see or hear in the life or men which ought not to be spoken of abroad, do not divulge, as all such should be kept secret.

• Reckon him who taught you this Art equally dear to you as your parents, share your substance with him,and relieve his necessities if required.