Hippocrates Quotes
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
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Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.