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
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
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational. — 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
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. — 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
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
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
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — 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
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. — 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
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
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
