Hippocrates Quotes
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.