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.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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First of all 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.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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