Hippocrates Quotes
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Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (XIV, Translated by W. H. S. Jones. LCL 148, Pages 296-297)
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck.
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ἀσκεῖν περὶ τὰ νοσήματα δύο, ὠφελεῖν ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Life is short and the art long.
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In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.