Medicine By Hippocrates Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

#3. 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.

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#4. The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.

Hippocrates

#6. First do no harm. -Hippocrates
Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

Anne M. Lipton

#7. The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Hippocrates

#8. Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Hippocrates

#9. The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

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#10. The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

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#11. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

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#12. The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

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#13. Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

Hippocrates

#14. I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

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#15. Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.

Hippocrates

#16. 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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#17. Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

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#18. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates

#19. The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

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#20. Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

Hippocrates

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

Hippocrates

#22. 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.

Jeanne Achterberg

#23. Let food be thy your medicine

Hippocrates

#24. Walking is man's best medicine.

Hippocrates

#25. Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic.

Philip Ball

#26. For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.

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#27. Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

Hippocrates

#28. When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

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#29. Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

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#30. 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.

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#31. In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

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#32. Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

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#33. 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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#34. Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

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