…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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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.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Many admire, few know.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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