black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Hippocrates

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATES

Condition Conscious Contentment Goodness Helth Perilous Recover Some Patient
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
HIPPOCRATES

According Agreeably Do Everything Indication May Medication Out Thing Turn
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATES

Good Nothing Remedy Something
A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATES

Equal God Lover Physicians Wisdom
Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATES

Chemist Drug Food Heal Leave Patient Pot
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

Act Declare Diagnose Disease Foretell Habit Help Make Past Practice Present Thing Two
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATES

Ask Away First Good Health Illness Must One Oneself Ready Reason Someone Wish
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

Diaphragm Heart However Nothing Operation Particularly Sensitive Understand
All disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATES

All Disease Gut Start
He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATES

Astrology Doctor Does Understand Fool He
The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
HIPPOCRATES

Attention Change Combination Given Individual Season Thing Win
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HIPPOCRATES

Ability According Help Injury Judgement Low never Sick Treatment Use Will Wrongdoing
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
HIPPOCRATES

Experiment Feeling Judgement Life Long Opportunity Short Uncertain
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
HIPPOCRATES

Death Develop Human Soul Time Up
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.
HIPPOCRATES

Ask Council Deadly Give Like Manner Medicine One Pessary Suggest Woman
Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATES

Drag Evil Idleness Lack Occupation Tend Toward

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hippocrates Quotes