III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick…

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

“The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate with him,…

— Corinne Heline

“Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century)”

— Terry Deary

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Hippocrates wrote: “Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand,…

— Carl Sagan

“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing.…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Anne M. Lipton

“Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, had described the body’s ability to heal itself, which he called veriditas (green life force). He believed that…

— Steven R. Gundry

“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If you cut…

— Scott Stossel

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. —Hippocrates of Cos”

— Jo Schaalman

“Hippocrates said let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

— Lee Vickers

“I didn’t know. But if I did not know what I wanted, I had learned something, something not found in Hippocrates, Maimonides, or Osler:…

— Paul Kalanithi

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE SCIENCE OF…

— Nat Greene

“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