Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
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 Image
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
