Hippocrates Of Cos Quotes

#1. People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe - Author: Hippocrates

#2. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. - Author: Hippocrates

#3. The physician treats, but nature heals. - Author: Hippocrates

#4. 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 ... - Author: Hippocrates

#5. Life is short, the art long. - Author: Hippocrates

#6. From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations - Author: Hippocrates

#7. To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. - Author: Hippocrates

#8. 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. - Author: Hippocrates

#9. Walking is a man's best medicine. - Author: Hippocrates

#10. A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses. - Author: Hippocrates

#11. Look to the seasons when choosing your cures - Author: Hippocrates

#12. 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. - Author: Hippocrates

#13. The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it - Author: Hippocrates

#14. Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. - Author: Hippocrates

#15. It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has. - Author: Hippocrates

#16. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. - Author: Hippocrates

#17. A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god. - Author: Hippocrates

#18. Divine is the task to relieve pain - Author: Hippocrates

#19. Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. - Author: Hippocrates

#20. As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Author: Hippocrates

#21. Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease. - Author: Jeanne Achterberg

#22. Let food be thy your medicine - Author: Hippocrates

#23. Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. - Author: Hippocrates

#24. 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. - Author: Hippocrates

#25. What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about. - Author: Hippocrates

#26. When in sickness, look to the spine first. - Author: Hippocrates

#27. We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. - Author: Hippocrates

#28. 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. - Author: Hippocrates

#29. We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000? - Author: William Osler

#30. For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting. - Author: Hippocrates