And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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