We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. — 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
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of… — 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
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient,… — 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
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or… — 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
