“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — 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 more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person… — 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
For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. — 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
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
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
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
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins… — 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
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the… — 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… — 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
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
