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
years medicine wish
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.
inspirational life art
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
illness fitting treatment
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
giving charity philanthropy
Sometimes give your services for nothing.
art three disease
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
art short-life life-is-short
The art is long, life is short
sleep disease watchfulness
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
men medicine care
Walking is man's best medicine.
sacred mystery persons
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
art life-is-short long
Life is short and the art long.
education art science
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place...
fitness workout exercise
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
art pain mean
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.
science opposites would-be
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.