All Hippocrates Quotes
- Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces. Consider
- Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage. Anyone
- 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 life… Acts
- The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it All
- Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods. Foods
- Look to the seasons when choosing your cures Choosing
- Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm) Firsts
- Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing… Abroad
- Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for… Acquire
- Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician. Condition
- The chief virtue that language can have is clarity. Chief
- It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not… Age
- It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen… Age
- Walking is a man's best medicine. Best
- Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,… Absent
- I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from… Ability
- What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men,… Abroad
- Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by… Acquire
- Opposites are cures for opposites. Cures
- Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. Acquired