Hippocrates Quotes
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure.
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With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.