The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESI 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATES -
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
HIPPOCRATES -
He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATES -
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
HIPPOCRATES -
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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 -
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATES -
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATES -
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATES






