Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The art is long, life is short.