Let food be thy your medicine

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to...

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Ars longa vita brevis

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

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do...

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human,...

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.