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.
HIPPOCRATESTo really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATES -
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HIPPOCRATES -
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATES -
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 -
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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 -
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATES -
The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
HIPPOCRATES -
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATES -
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATES -
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HIPPOCRATES -
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATES -
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATES -
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
HIPPOCRATES -
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
HIPPOCRATES -
Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
HIPPOCRATES -
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 -
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.
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 -
There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
HIPPOCRATES -
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATES