Hippocrates Of Cos Quotes & Sayings

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. — Hippocrates

I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. — Hippocrates

Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible. — Hippocrates

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. — Hippocrates

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. — Hippocrates

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures — Hippocrates

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. — Hippocrates

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

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

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

Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and the correct measures. For anyone who has an understanding of medicine in this way depends very little upon good luck, but is able to do good with or without luck. For the whole of medicine has been established, and the excellent principles discovered in it clearly have very little need of good luck. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates wrote: Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things. — Carl Sagan

It felt - nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos - that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates

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. — Hippocrates

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates

Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future. — Hippocrates

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle
Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead. — Anurag Shourie

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

Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates

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

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. — Hippocrates

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. ( ... regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another. — Hippocrates

Life is short, the art long. — Hippocrates

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates

Life is short, art is long. — Hippocrates

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

Life is short and the art long. — Hippocrates

Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man. — Hippocrates