Hippocrates Quotes
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Life is short and the art long.
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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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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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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The body of man has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile; these make up the nature of this body, and through these he feels pain or enjoys health. Now he enjoys the most perfect health when these elements are duly proportioned to one another in respect of compounding, power and bulk, and when they are perfectly mingled.
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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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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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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
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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.