Hippocrates Quotes

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• Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it…
• Sport is a preserver of health.
• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
• ...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the…
• Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these…
• The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
• Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
• Nature itself is the best physician.
• If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
• Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
• Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of…
• Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
• I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
• Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant…
• Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what…
• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during…
• A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
• Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

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