Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.
Life is short,
the art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experience treacherous,
judgment difficult.
这段人生感悟似乎也可看作对诊断难题的描述:时机紧迫,以往经验可能会引偏不可全信。对比中医对于经验的依赖。
It’s more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
他的整体观:治病是要治整个人,不只是治病
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。 他的养生观:饮食有节,运动适量, 不多不少
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
凡事不宜过度。
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. 医/药食同源,或者说,营养学的起源
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. 医疗的目的是协助人体自愈?
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
知识与观点的区别
还有这句最有名的:
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 good or to do no harm.