Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the "Father of Western Medicine" in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionScientist
art nursing medicine
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
opposites cures
Opposites are cures for opposites.
inspiring food ayurveda
Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.
past practice two
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
function restoring developing
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
health important disease
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
massage way baths
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
pain laughter mistake
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, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...
healthy growth age
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
remedy
Your foods shall be your 'remedies,' and your 'remedies' shall be your foods.
powerful disease causes
Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
men substance body
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 depends.
men medicine walking
Walking is a man's best medicine.
fitness medicine fasting
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.