Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly;… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And… — Hippocrates Copy Share
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made… — Hippocrates Copy Share
The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd… — Hippocrates Copy Share
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain… — Hippocrates Copy Share
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates Copy Share
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one… — Hippocrates Copy Share
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… — Hippocrates Copy Share
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details… — Hippocrates Copy Share
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought… — Hippocrates Copy Share
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them… — Hippocrates Copy Share
