I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
HIPPOCRATESInto whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATES -
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
Many admire, few know.
HIPPOCRATES -
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATES -
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATES -
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
HIPPOCRATES -
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATES -
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATES -
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATES -
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATES -
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATES -
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HIPPOCRATES