If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision… — 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
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm,… — 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
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food. — 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
I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them 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 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
